June 2010
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10 Principles of Sustainable Urban Transport
michaelpoos:
The following 10 Principles were created by the Institute of Transportation and Development Policy to “meet the challenges of rapid population growth and climate change while improving competitiveness.”
Walk the walk: Create great pedestrian environments.
Powered by people: Create a great environment for bicycles and other non-motorized vehicles.
Get on the bus: Provide great,...
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20-minute neighborhoods →
davidgalestudios:
Fast Company interview with Portland mayor Sam Adams, on working to make every section of Portland a complete 20-minute neighborhood to strengthen the local economy.
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WAYWARD: the suburbs/the city →
Being back in the Bay is always a weird combination of amazing and awful. There has been very little thinking, some visits to the therapist and the dentist to alleviate anxiety and the possibility of my teeth falling out (fears that turned out to be justified), a lot of fresh fruit, burritos,…
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“We take the particular perspective that cities are systems of systems, and that...”
– Quote from MIT’s Smart Cities Initiative website at http://cities.media.mit.edu/ (via horizonwatching)
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“This island city-state, thanks to its small size and a big public investment,...”
– Special Report - Technology - Singapore Gets Wired for Speed - NYTimes.com
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“The majority of the world’s population already lives in cities, and by 2030,...”
– Quote found at Nimble Cities: Help Slate improve urban transportation. - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine
(via horizonwatching)
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postcard: Jam gets sent to Coventry - innovation... →
Jam gets sent to Coventry – innovation spreads | A Smarter Planet Blog
How do you involve thousands of people in shaping how a city should be run? In a word, Jam.
Coventry City Council in the UK is running the first city based Jam, to take the conversation beyond city leader to it’s citizens….
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“IBM isn’t the only organization that thinks cities could be a lot “smarter.” For...”
– BPM powered by WebSphere: Making Sense of SENSEable Cities
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“The best way to get more out of energy, by a fairly wide margin, is low-tech and...”
– David Roberts, “Local Power: Tapping Distributed Energy in 21st-Century Cities”
for Scientific American
(via davidgalestudios)
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The Future of Google Earth? Mobile 3D City for...
Google Earth’s new iPad application is simply fantastic, but what if it was in 3D? A limited preview of that kind of functionality is promised by a forthcoming iPad app called Mobile 3D City.
Built by a French company called Newscape, as a demonstration of its technology that allows mobile devices to process large quantities of data, Mobile 3D City appeared on our radar today via a...
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rain collector skyscraper
‘capture the rain’ skyscraper is a building whose roof and external shell, which consists systems of gutters, are aimed at capturing as much rainfall as possible to meet the daily needs of its inhabitants. average daily consumption of water per person is 150 liters, out of which 85 liters may be replaced by rain water. within the last thirty years...
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Greenopolis makes a very simple – yet powerful – promise to you, our user:
We are about doing good.
Specifically, our goal is to provide you with information and tools to:
Help you to recycle easily
Help to save our natural resources for our children’s children
Track conservation through recycling and re-use
Educate and reward conservation
Through both our On-Line site of Greenopolis and...
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Learn about the new ways in which federal and municipal stakeholders are collaborating to promote the economic, physical, and social development of small- to mid-sized cities. Speakers will share their knowledge about successful strategies for economic and social development and discuss opportunities and challenges faced by their growing cities in these difficult economic times.
Conference...
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“From the freeways of Los Angeles to the canals of Amsterdam, cities are taking...”
– Fighting Carbon Emissions: Cities Take the Lead - BusinessWeek
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Philly Smarter Cities forum touches on transport,... →
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Raconteur on Smart Cities →
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Urban Design Group
irishboyinlondon:
Joined this group last week. Its great value for students - only £20! Includes 4 excellent quarterly magazines!
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Unplanning: Livable Cities and Political Choices →
irishboyinlondon:
Charles Siegel, author of Unplanning: Livable Cities and Political Choices, points out the flaws of modern city planning and proposes new models on how we can return (if there ever was) to the golden age of American urban living. One of my favorite plans attempts to regulate automobile traffic…
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In Defense of Los Angeles - The Future of the City... →
anxiaostudio:
L.A. in the aggregate can be mind-boggling. But taken as a collection of cells, each with its unique human center — in some cases a strip mall, in others a beach, in yet others, a local Mexican restaurant — it is far more manageable. L.A. is the ultimate post-modern city, anti-institution if you will. There is no big central nervous system running the whole mess. It’s a diffused...
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Work on blocking issues
Happy that the Giant IBM is working on building a planet of smarter cities. Smarter planet or city would be possible when smart work is delivered by all of us be it as a individual, or a company ,or the Government itself. For all the Systems of a city be it water,traffic,energy,education,healthcare - we may come up with several plans to harvest rain water, better traffic solutions , conserve...
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Smarter Cities Shanghai | Flickr
ragtag:
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http://designcanchange.org →
stainlessplanet:
How designers can make a difference.
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“EWG rated big city (population over 250,000) water utilities based on three...”
– Source: How Clean is City Water? View EWG’s Big City Water Ratings via Environmental Working Group (via horizonwatching) 